The ‘play,’ using family dolls who are self and family representatives, helps reveal the feeling life of the preschool child.”
Margaret Morgan Lawrence MD
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Among Poverty Populations
WAYS TO Support the Harlem Family Institute
The Institute traditionally derives its income from foundations, its trustees and other individual contributors, corporate matching grants, houses of worship, and its students.
Though the Institute is working to increase its revenue from the schools and community organizations that host its clinical-treatment centers, it is also eager to expand its financial support from foundations and individual donors.
To this end, it is working to lift its public profile and is seeking to develop relationships at all levels to increase its financial support.
It is interested in partnering with organizations or individuals who can help it achieve its goals and is preparing products for individuals to encourage them to donate or bequeath funds.
If you would like to work with us to support the Institute's mission, please contact us.
Monetary Donations
To pay by debit or credit card or by PayPal, click here:
Checks or money orders should be made payable to the Harlem Family Institute and be mailed to:
The Harlem Family Institute
2 Riverside Drive #5D
New York, NY 10023
Support Our Students
The Institute seeks donations to its scholarship fund to support its students' training: the Margaret Morgan Lawrence Fund.
The Margaret Morgan Lawrence Fund honors Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, the HFI founding trustee who was the nation's first African American woman pediatrician and psychoanalyst. She died in December 2019 at 105.
Please click on the Donate button at left and specify the Margaret Morgan Lawrence Fund, or mail a check, made out to the Harlem Family Institute (and specifying the Margaret Morgan Lawrence Fund), to:
The Harlem Family Institute
2 Riverside Drive #5D
New York, NY 10023
Toys, Games and
Art Materials
The Institute welcomes donations of toys, games and art materials:
Art materials: Colored paper, white drawing paper, markers, crayons, scissors, glue, rulers, erasers, tempera paints, brushes, small paint trays, smocks, etc. Collage materials: buttons, yarn, metallic paper, beads, feathers, string, etc.
Toys and games of all kinds, especially for imaginative and therapeutic play, such as dolls' houses and the dolls and furniture for them; families of animals; action figures and Lego or PlayMobile figures and construction kits.